As announced at MIX last week, we’ve started shipping previews of IE10 ( download ) – just like we did through the IE9 alpha/beta stages. And this shows our continued focus on making IE a top browser choice for Windows users and IT shops. But, after reading...

Well, it’s an exciting time to work at Microsoft, with so many cool things unfolding before us. As you could imagine, there are lots of questions around the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8”. I look forward to the next disclosure...

Yes, there’s a new O/S coming from Microsoft. It’s more different than any Windows before. Windows is truly reimagined. It’s also a big opportunity for our customers and our partners, across the whole ecosystem. As my DPE friends and I work with partners...

You know – we want the end of IE6 as much as you do. I don’t know why companies continue to hold out. Whenever I’ve looked into circumstances that keep people from moving on, it’s almost always some silliness – and I need to stay away from expressing...

In IE9, the presence of the compatibility button means that a site is defaulting to IE9 Standards mode , and has not indicated what standards mode to run under. FYI – the compatibility button is the broken page image that appears in the address...

Yesterday was another milestone for the IE team. The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta launch has received some very nice coverage , and the presentation was well done. The launch partners’ work looks great – this can be seen at the Beauty Of...

No, not exactly. Today, we are announcing the release of the source code for the .NET Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License (sometimes referred to as Ms-RL). This allows for the viewing of the source code by anyone who accepts the...

I’ve seen several MS folks pointing out this capability, so I just had to share this tidbit. To my knowledge, the only way to see WP7 applications in our WP7 Marketplace was either on the phone or via the Zune software on your PC. Now, Bing Visual Search...

I recently downloaded the Silverlight 1.1 SDK. I wanted to start reading the doc's which come in Compiled HTML Help files - you know those *.CHM files. I drag some out of the downloaded ZIP, confirm to Windows Vista that I really want to open this file...

Join us for a sneak peek at some of the new capabilities in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 , a landmark release of the premier development and testing toolset for Windows ® , Web and Cloud development. Microsoft has made significant investments...

Yesterday, Tami Reller brought some enlightenment about Windows 8 at a technology conference in Arizona. You can see the Microsoft post here . Everyone is talking about the 40M licenses sold, and attempting to correlate to our performance. That...

Wow! Another cool web experience, that runs better with IE9. Check this out: Disney TRON: Legacy Digital Book Site . Very cool experience. First off, it is HTML5, so any modern browser can run it. Second, just looking at the Behind the Scenes explanation...

The Windows 8 ecosystem provides several ways to discover app’s. First, every Windows 8 machine has the Windows Store application. One can find an app via promotion on the landing page, via application categories and filtering, and even via the...

As I pointed out a few days ago, recent testing showed that Internet Explorer Officially Becomes World’s Most Used Browser . Lot of folks on the internet dislike these types of announcements, especially the MSFT haters out there. I mean, c’mon, chill...

What are IE8 Web Slices? Web Slices are small pieces of syndicated content that enable users to subscribe to pieces of Web sites and notify users when these pieces have been updated. This frees the user from having to periodically check the Web site for...

I was recently asked to assist with our S2B program, otherwise known as Microsoft Students to Business . More details on what they do here . If you know of a student, share these links with them. Anyway, S2B has this webcast series, and each episode is...

In most demonstrations of an Internet Explorer 8 accelerator, I see the typical selection based usage. You know? The kind where someone selects some text on a web page, they get the blue accelerator icon, they click it, and there’s that list of accelerators...

As a test, I wrote a simple page that would leverage preview and execute across multiple modes in the same accelerator.
UPDATE : Thanks to some helpful folks, I have found that accelerator preview blocks the passing of documentUrl as a safety precaution...

As I type this one, pulling up one of my favorite albums, Welcome To The Freak Show . If you’re old DC Talk fan like me, this should get your attention. tobyMac (one of the DC Talk trio) has a web slice, titled tobyMac Webslice . It was built by MetaBlocks...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 11, 2010 — Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused events, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. The company also announced that Silverlight...

Been a busy week of announcements and releases at Microsoft this week – like Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released . Here’s another biggie: Silverlight 4 offers powerful, innovative media and business application capabilities that enable developers to...

Cameron Skinner and Visual Studio 2010 ( Friday , April 30, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) Event Details Have you ever had to work with a legacy codebase? Designing new functionality on existing applications can be daunting. There are always differences between...